v1.5.0

API Documentation

This patch includes various quality of life improvements to async-std.
Including improved performance, stability, and the addition of various
Clone impls that replace the use of Arc in many cases.

Added

• Added links to various ecosystem projects from the README (#660)
• Added an example on FromStream for Result<T, E> (#643)
• Added stream::pending as "unstable" (#615)
• Added an example of stream::timeout to document the error flow (#675)
• Implement Clone for DirEntry (#682)
• Implement Clone for TcpStream (#689)

Changed

• Removed internal comment on stream::Interval (#645)
• The "unstable" feature can now be used without requiring the "default" feature (#647)
• Removed unnecessary trait bound on stream::FlatMap (#651)
• Updated the "broadcaster" dependency used by "unstable" to 1.0.0 (#681)
• Updated async-task to 1.2.1 (#676)
• task::block_on now parks after a single poll, improving performance in many cases (#684)
• Improved reading flow of the "client" part of the async-std tutorial (#550)
• Use take_while instead of scan in impl of Product, Sum and FromStream (#667)
• TcpStream::connect no longer uses a thread from the threadpool, improving performance (#687)

Fixed

• Fixed crate documentation typo (#655)
• Fixed documentation for UdpSocket::recv (#648)
• Fixed documentation for UdpSocket::send (#671)
• Fixed typo in stream documentation (#650)
• Fixed typo on sync::JoinHandle documentation (#659)
• Removed use of std::error::Error::description which failed CI (#661)
• Removed the use of rustfmt's unstable format_code_in_doc_comments option which failed CI (#685)
• Fixed a code typo in the task::sleep example (#688)